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What if?" is always a fascinating question. It lets us explore our imaginations in scenarios we'll never actually see play out. Now though, you can see them play out in The Walking Dead universe and it's arguably the most intriguing thing to happen to the franchise in years.Read more...

Apple's promising several upgrades to its upcoming iPhone 15 to entice more people to upgrade, but behind the scenes, the company is reportedly expecting far fewer sales of its mainline smartphone this time around.Read more...

Archaeologists studying ancient human remains in a Spanish cave system posit that one individual's burial is the oldest Neolithic funerary site in Iberia by over 1,000 years.Read more...

A study from researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests ChatGPT demonstrates liberal bias in some of its responses. Tech companies spent recent years desperately trying to prove their systems aren't part of some left-wing political conspiracy. If the study's findings are correct, ChatGPT's...Read more...

Microsoft is bringing an end to its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace starting July 29, 2024, the company announced on Thursday. The closure brings an end to Xbox 360's 18-year run of bringing video games and other content to players everywhere.Read more...

When Cosmic Fury-seemingly the last iteration of Power Rangers as fans have known it for the last 30 years as Hasbro looks to a new movie-and-TV take on the transforming teens-comes to Netflix last month, it's bringing a legend with it: the original Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston, is back in spandex.

Over the past year of using Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 4 out in public, people have told me that, while they think folding phones are cool, they seem like nothing more than an expensive party trick. I don't disagree. Life is fine with just one screen in your pocket and a smartphone that doesn't unfold into a tablet. No...Read more...

A few short weeks ago, the world was taken aback by claims of a room-temperature superconductor-a scientific finding that could redefine modern physics as we know it. Those claims turned out to be bunk, and a South Korean university is investigating a complaint made against the professor who published them in a paper.Read more...

Prey, Dan Trachtenberg's installment into the Predator franchise, is arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 3. There will also be a collector's edition steelbook for the 4K edition, designed by Attila Szarca, exclusively available at Best Buy. Notably, Prey didn't make it to theatrical release, and was...Read more...

Tropical storm Hilary in the Pacific Ocean has strengthened to officially become a hurricane.Read more...

Razer has done an impressive job with its mechanical gaming keyboards. Since launching the DeathStalker V2 Pro in 2021, it's cut back on the physical bloat and opted for simpler designs so that the boards have become like blank canvasses. I'm still not on board with the decidedly masculine esport" aesthetic, but at...Read more...

OpenAI is facing a potential lawsuit from The New York Times for an intellectual property debate over alleged copyright violations, sources told NPR on Wednesday. The news outlet claims OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, is using the Times' content to train its chatbot.Read more...

The handheld console market is about to go full-circle. Leaked images of Lenovo's upcoming Legion Go gaming device show that the company has taken inspiration from Nintendo and Valve for its next product, with the silhouette and controls of the Steam Deck plus the snappable, swappable controllers of the Nintendo...Read more...

Something big, furious, and ready to fight is coming to Apple TV+, and with any luck, it'll be bringing like-minded friends along. The streamer has just lifted the lid on its 10-episode series continuing the story of Legendary's Monsterverse, revealing the title-Monarch: Legacy of Monsters-and some first images.Read more...

Two alleged stalking victims filed a class-action lawsuit against Tile and its parent company Life360 Monday accusing the companies of failing to implement useful safety features and of mounting advertising campaigns that encouraged stalking. They also accuse the company of tanking the case against their alleged...Read more...

One of the most maligned tropes of the social media age is the infamous apology video. Whether it be blackface, showing a dead body to children, posting racist tweets, a convention gone wrong, or texting minors, there have been plenty of apology videos posted in the last decade of YouTube's popularity.

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: '73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre's 50th anniversary.

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When editorial assistant Nella (Sinclair Daniel) meets her new co-worker Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), she's thrilled that her otherwise jarringly all-white company has hired another Black person. But as the trailer for new Hulu series The Other Black Girl reveals, sometimes it's better to be careful what you wish for.

How do you sell a superhero comic these days?" is a question a lot of publishers and comics retailers are grappling with, but apparently at least in some very specific cases, the answer is have James Gunn tweet about it."

Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk's purchase of the company. A report published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution this week found that almost 50% of over 300,000 environmentally oriented"...Read more...

Third-party merchants on Amazon who ship their own packages will see an additional fee for each product sold starting on Oct. 1st. Sellers could previously choose to ship their products without contributing to Amazon, but the new feemeans members of Amazon's Seller Fulfilled Prime program will be required to pay the...Read more...

The Big Apple is joining the TikTok ban bandwagon. New York City issued a new directive on Wednesday banning TikTok from city-owned devices and forcing local agencies to remove the app from its phones and tablets within 30 days. Starting today, anyone using a city-owned device or network is prohibited from downloading ...Read more...

Coraline, the 2009 stop-motion animated film by The Nightmare Before Christmas directorHenry Selick, was a beloved hit from the instant it was released. It had box office success, critical acclaim, award recognition, and audience adoration. What few could have predicted though was the film's staying power, which was...Read more...

The United States Space Force has launched a unit dedicated to warding off threats from other countries in space.Read more...

Self-driving cars are one of the funniest broken promises of the modern age. Far are we from the fantasy of The Jetsons and Total Recall, self-driving vehicles may be some of the dumbest creatures to roll across planet Earth. One such car found itself stuck in wet cement while cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday.Read more...

The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn't stopping the company itself from making a quick buck in exchange for training generative AI on older AP content.Read more...

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Star Wars is a franchise with a lot of characters, but all of them all feel rooted in a particular place in time. You can feel that the Skywalker twins and Han Solo are products of the late 1970s to some degree or another. Similarly, you can see that someone like Din Djarin or Mace Windu is born out of the late 2010s...Read more...

What is this, a game controller for ants? The company that brought you wireless versions of the classic NEOGEO CD controller and an upgrade kit to turn an N64 controller into a wireless gamepad now has a controller so compact it seems purpose-built for getting lost between the couch cushions.Read more...

As we all know, with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA currently on strike, the production of major TV shows and movies has been put on pause. One of the biggest ones impacted is The Last of Us, the hit HBO adaptation of the PlayStation game which was gearing up for season two. Co-showrunner Craig Mazin said that before the...Read more...

New York University professor and Kara Swisher's podcasting buddyScott Galloway voiced his outrage at being banned from posting on Twitter in a Threads post on Tuesday. Galloway claims he's been locked out of Twitter (aka X) two days after allegedly declining an invitation to meet with the chief Twit himself.Read more...

The Wheel of Time returns to Prime Video on September 1, when the first three episodes of season two will reunite us with characters who went through a lot in season one-and introduce some new faces too. Get a glimpse of everyone in these new character posters that tease what's to come in the upcoming episodes.Read more...

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought.Read more...

Newly unsealed court filings following a federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 elections show the lengths Twitter lawyers went to try and notify the former president of the government's inquiry and delay investigators from obtaining detailed information from the former president's...Read more...

This week, DC Studios starts anew with Blue Beetle, officially kicking off the James Gunn and Peter Safran-led superhero slate in earnest with the studio's strongest film in quite a while.Read more...

Barbie, the billion-dollar sensation from Greta Gerwig starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is going to digital release on September 5. It's already available to pre-order on Amazon.

Otzi made international headlines when he was found by a pair of climbers, sticking out of an ice patch high in the Italian alps. When he was found, Otzi had already been dead for about 5,300 years, but his remarkably preserved remains have since given scientists a unique window into Copper Age Europe.Read more...

Warrior Nun wasn't the flashiest show on Netflix, but it was a show that captured the hearts of many. Fans loved this series so much that when it was cancelled after two seasons the hashtag #SaveWarriorNun was everywhere on social media. Fans launched tweet-in campaigns, wrote emails, and showed up everywhere they...Read more...

After days of devastating fires that have displaced thousands of people, and have burned down important historical sites throughout Maui, the official death count has risen to 106 according to officials.Read more...

Apple is still struggling to find a good place to move its End Call" button on the upcoming iOS 17. After shoving the button to the bottom right of the screen during calls, Apple is now testing putting it center stage, though still surrounded by other apps.

Printers are one of the great necessary evils in our modern world, much to the chagrin of consumers. Now a federal judge has ruled that HP must face a class action lawsuit, in which the plaintiffs argue that the company's all-in-one printers brick themselves when the ink runs low.Read more...

Intuitive Machines is gearing up for the launch of its mission to the Moon, hoping to become the first private space venture to land on the lunar surface. The company recently stated that its lunar lander would be ready to fly in September, with plans to launch the Nova-C lander to the Moon in November.Read more...

Cast and crew talk about Poirot's brushes with the supernatural in a new Haunting in Venice featurette. Get a look at the return of Shining Vale. The Hunger Games prequel reveals its lengthy runtime. Plus, Clark struggles with superhearing on My Adventures With Superman. Spoilers get!

People queued up outside the Bank of Ireland on Tuesday after a glitch in the system appeared to allow customers to withdraw money without affecting their balance. The bank, which is one of the largest in Ireland, acknowledged the glitch on Wednesday, saying the issue had been resolved, but only after customers had...Read more...

AYN has been ever-so-slowly unveiling more details about its upcoming Odin 2 handheld console for the past several weeks. Now, the company shared specs for its upcoming Steam Deck competitor, including storage, processor, and, most importantly, its competitive price: $299.Read more...

Did you forget that the characters from Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World-based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novels-were getting their own Netflix anime series? Did you worry that something that sounds so cool could never actually become a reality? Fear not: it's real, it's got a title (Scott Pilgrim Takes...Read more...

With Disney+ and Lucasfilm's Mandalorian universe expanding in Ahsoka, the fandom style experts over at RSVLTS have released a new drop just in time for the new series' premiere.Read more...

Harrison Ford has earned the right to be curmudgeonly-but the 81-year-old star of so many iconic films is known for tempering his grouchiness with sly humor and heart. That came through 100 percent in a statement he shared after scientists discovered a new species of snake in Peru's Otishi National Park and named it ...Read more...

ND Stevenson is still processing. About two weeks after the release ofNimona, the animated feature based on the webcomic he wrote in college, Stevenson and I were able to chat about the journey that Nimona has been on for nearly a decade. Not just going from page to screen, but going from studio to studio, and how...Read more...